Platform Engineer

Macquarie Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing leave day

Parental leave (up to 20 weeks)

Volunteer leave

Gender affirmation leave

Learning and development

Hybrid and flexible working

Equipment reimbursement

Job summary

Macquarie Group in Sydney is seeking a Platform Engineer to own the foundations of our cloud platform, enabling rapid, reliable releases across development teams.

You will automate environments end-to-end on GCP and Kubernetes, build observability and tooling, and collaborate across functions to drive operational maturity.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience managing GCP and Kubernetes environments.
• Experience designing automated tooling to stand up cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD.
• Strong collaboration across cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Own the engineering foundations that support all development teams.
• Automate environments end-to-end and build scalable platforms.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and tooling.
• Improve observability, incident response, and reliability.

Skills

GCP

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Automation

Observability

API gateways

Service mesh

Data migrations

Event-driven

AI-assisted engineering

Job description

Join our PropertyIQ team, we are passionate about leveraging cloud engineering practices to deliver superior services. Our dedication to quality and continuous improvement is the cornerstone of our culture. We are doing great things which will revolutionise how our customers interact with us and our products.

We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value. You will bring your insights and expertise to the task at hand and feel supported as you make your own kind of impact for a better future.

What role will you play?

As a Platform Engineer, you will own the engineering foundations that every other development team builds on—from how we deploy and operate our services, to how we detect and respond to problems, to the tooling that makes all of it repeatable. You will stand up and automate environments end-to-end, build the automation that moves us forward as we evolve our platform, and own the frameworks that keep every release trustworthy. You will be the engineer other teams rely on when something foundational needs to just work.

What you offer

• Cloud Platform & Kubernetes Expertise: Strong hands‑on experience managing and scaling cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and orchestrating containerized workloads utilizing Kubernetes (GKE).
• Platform Automation & Ownership: Proven capability to design, build, and maintain automation for standing up GCP and Kubernetes environments end-to-end, actively reducing manual toil and driving operational efficiency across development teams.
• CI/CD & Delivery Engineering: Hands‑on expertise building and hardening secure, automated CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD) to ensure rapid, reliable, and repeatable deployments of containerized services.
• Platform Reliability & Observability: Practical experience building robust monitoring, alerting, and logging into GCP/Kubernetes environments from the ground up, leading structured incident response, and driving continuous improvement in operational maturity.
• Migration & Data Automation: Experience designing and implementing automated tooling to streamline system and data migrations, ensuring legacy workloads are transitioned to modern containerized platforms with minimal risk and manual intervention.
• Integration Engineering: Strong background integrating core systems and platform components—including API gateways, service meshes, event‑driven architectures, and messaging queues—to enable highly reliable, decoupled architectures.
• AI‑Assisted Engineering: Comfort operating in an AI‑assisted engineering environment, leveraging modern tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) to accelerate delivery speed while maintaining a strict focus on quality, security, and design standards.
• Collaborative Problem‑Solving: Demonstrated ability to break down ambiguous, multi‑system problems and solve them systematically in close, cross‑functional collaboration with the wider engineering organization.

What we offer

At Macquarie, you’re empowered to shape a career that’s rewarding in all the ways that matter most to you. Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on employment type, include:

• 1 wellbeing leave day per year
• Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year
• Up to 20 weeks’ paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks’ paid leave for non‑primary caregivers
• 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching
• Up to 12 months’ gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks’ paid leave
• Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations
• Access to a wide range of salary packaging options
• Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription
• Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role
• Reimbursement for work from home equipment

About Banking and Financial Services

Banking and Financial Services is our technology‑driven retail bank. You will be part of a team that supports clients to achieve their full potential – whether that’s buying a home, growing a business or investing to manage wealth.

Inclusion at Macquarie

We are committed to providing an inclusive environment for all, where different experiences, skills and perspectives are valued and respected. Macquarie provides access to opportunities for all individuals regardless of race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, genetic information, marital status, gender identity or any other characteristic or circumstance.

We provide reasonable adjustments to individuals who may need support during the recruitment process and employment. If you require an adjustment, please let us know during the application process.